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How to add a column using Laravel Migration

There are many mistakes I made along the way of learning Laravel. Here I put together this post to mark one of the most important lessons I just learned. What is the right way to use Laravel Migration to add a new column without dropping a table! This article is not trying to tell you which line of code doing what job. It’s more about which step is the right way to go in a certain development context. It’s hard to grasp the full picture of the development cycle from Laravel document because it always lists all the options and tell you the details for each option, but doesn’t explain what should do next and why do it in this way.

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